Improvement in harvestek-rakes



D. GLOW.

HARVESTER RAKE.

No. 107,004. 0 Patented Sept. 6, 1870.

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Letters Patent N0.107,004, dated September 6,- 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVES'IEE-RAKES.

The Schedule referred to in theseLetters Patent and making part 0! the 532115 1, DANIEL GLOW, of the city of Janesville, in the county of Rock andState of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Automatic Harvesting-Reels a'ml Rakes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an automatic harvesterrake, and

It consists in the construction and arrangement of the rake-arms and the toothed heads, to which they are attached, whereby the rake-armsare easily attached to and detached from their operating head, aml the cost of manufac'tiiring greatly reduced.

Figure l is a transverse vertical section, showing at a glance all the novel features of this invention.

' Figure 2 is a top view of the largebevel-wheel A.

Figure 3 is an end view of the rake-arm (Z and wedge O.

Figure 4 is a top view'of the other end of the same thing.

O is the standard or. supporting-flame of thesaid machine, constructed in the usual way, and easily attached to any reaper or harvestingmachine, the'lower part thereof broken olf in the drawing.

A is the large bevel-wheel, pivoted on the top of the said standard O,'and lying in a horizontal position.

b is a small bevel-wheel or pinion, attached to a horizontal shaft, as usual, from which the large bevelwheel receives its motion through a continuous line of common mechanical arrangements, back to the main driving-wheel. i

(l is an iron arm, hinged to the said large bevel-v whecl, and used in connection with the reel or rakehead E, which is made of wood, and of any convenient le.ngth.'

ff are recesses or grooves in either arm (I, as seen in lig.4.-

- h is a recess or groove in the top of the large bevelwheel, into which the said arm :3 is inserted, and permanently held there by the hinge .g, projecting inward from either side thereof, and enters into the said groove f f 0f the said arm (I.

Fig. 2 clearly illustrates this peculiar device, and shows at a glance the important feature of this invenside of the said tion.

Now, these said grooves h h h h h h of the rakearm d, and the said hinges g g g g g g of the bevelwheel A, are so constructed that the one fits into the other nicely, and may be attached and detached at pleasure, without interfering one with the other, of the said arms, or disturbing any other part of the said machine by the simple process of hooking-the one into the other, and vice cersa, and it often occurs in the harvest-field, that these said arms must be taken out and put in, as occasion requires. I

Now, the said arm' d has a deep groove or recess, P, out into it from the top downward, as seen in fig. '3, open at one end, and closed at the other, as seen infig. 1.

At the one end a recess or chamber is formed, into which the said reel or rake-head E is inserted, and pernianen'tly'held there.

At the other end of the said arm d is a screw, I,

and nuts j j, perpendicularly inserted, to hold the arm and the said reel or rake-head together, and to adjust the same to the desired pitch, which is done by loosening the said nuts, raising the rake, and inserting the wedge Oat the bottom, as seen in fig. 3.

L is a gudgeon, upon which the large bevel-wheel turns, and is an integral part of the said wheel, being cast together into one single piece of mechanism.

N ow, I am well aware that the leading features of the above-described machine are now, and have been for a long time, in common use; that is to say, the combination of the said wheels with the said standard,-the arms of the wheel and reel or rake-head, with the said arms, so that, therefore, my invention relates entirely to the peculiar mechanical construction and arranggment of the several parts described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is a The construction and arrangement of the bevelwheel A, having recesses h, and hinge projections g, and the rake-arm (I, having recesses f f and chamber at, as described.

DANIEL GLOW. Witnesses:

STANLEY B. SMITH, WILLARD MERRILL. 

